Elizabeth Warren Slams GOP Debate Commercial Depicting Her as ‘Commie Dictator’
Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren fired back at an advertisement that aired during Tuesday’s Republican debate, criticizing the spot for making her look like “a Commie dictator.”
So… Can we talk about that ad that just ran during the #GOPDebate where I look like a Commie dictator?
— Elizabeth Warren (@elizabethforma) November 11, 2015
The ad, paid for by the conservative nonprofit advocacy group American Action Network, targets the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau — a government watchdog agency spearheaded by Warren in response to the 2008 financial crisis and subsequent Great Recession.
The 30-second spot depicts the CFPB as an authoritarian bureaucracy with workers robotically denying consumer loan applications. Red banners featuring Warren and CFPB director Richard Cordray hang prominently in the bureau office.
Warren stood up for the agency in a series of tweets promoting the CFPB, telling her followers the bureau “has forced the big financial companies to return more than $11B to people they cheated.” She also said the GOP will try to undercut the CFPB “in closed-door deals.”
The @CFPB has forced the big financial companies to return more than $11B to people they cheated on credit cards, mortgages, etc. #GOPDebate
— Elizabeth Warren (@elizabethforma) November 11, 2015
Wall Street knows if they soften @CFPB support, the GOP will feel better undercutting the agency in closed-door deals. #GOPDebate
— Elizabeth Warren (@elizabethforma) November 11, 2015
So here’s my message to Wall Street & their GOP buddies: we’re ready to fight back to protect the @CFPB. #GOPDebate
— Elizabeth Warren (@elizabethforma) November 11, 2015
According to The Intercept, two board members for American Action Network are also registered lobbyists for Navient, a student loan company currently under investigation by the CFPB.
Watch the video above, via American Action Network.
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